Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Volume 34, Issue 3 , Pages 192-202 , April 2010

Level set fiber bundle segmentation using spherical harmonic coefficients

  • Mohammad-Reza Nazem-Zadeh

      Affiliations

    • Control and Intelligent Processing Center of Excellence, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran 14395-515, Iran
    • ,
  • Esmaeil Davoodi-Bojd

      Affiliations

    • Control and Intelligent Processing Center of Excellence, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran 14395-515, Iran
    • ,
  • Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh

      Affiliations

    • Control and Intelligent Processing Center of Excellence, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran 14395-515, Iran
    • Image Analysis Laboratory, Radiology Department, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Medical Image Analysis Laboratory, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Henry Ford Hospital, One Ford Place, 2F, Detroit, MI 48202, USA. Tel.: +1 313 874 4482; fax: +1 313 874 4494.

Received 25 March 2009 ,Revised 3 July 2009 ,Accepted 14 September 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2009.09.003

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Volume 34, Issue 3 , Pages 192-202 , April 2010

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